Re: DnD

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Robert Roebling <roebling@ruf.uni-freiburg.de> writes:

>   Hi,
> 
> do I understand right, that there is no way
> (using the new DnD code) that an application
> would request DnD in a specific format not
> defined as a standard target? The old DnD
> code let you define "image/png" as a possible
> target, the new one only seems to have 
> "pixmap" and "user". OK, maybe PNG wouldn´t
> be really useful, but RTF certainly would.

I'm not sure I understand.

The new DND code simply uses strings (X atoms in particular)
to convey target types.

The standard we use for the format of those strings
is MIME types.

So, "image/png" is very much a good type to use.
so would by "application/x-my-cool-spreadsheat-document"

                                        Owen